St Paul

the influence of St Paul on the early Christian church and on Christian theology generally. St Paul joined the Christian church in a time of confusion and wonder. Jesus had been crucified and resurrected and the Christians believed they were living at the end of the world. Paul’s impact on Christianity is vast: he imposed an identity on the early Christians and a coherent theology that thinkers from St Augustine to Martin Luther have grappled with. Crucially, Paul is responsible for changing Christianity from a Jewish reform movement into a separate and universal religion.

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Guests

• Helen Bond 2 episodes
  Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at the University of Edinburgh
• John Haldane 8 episodes
  Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews
• John Barclay No other episodes
  The Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University

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Hello (First sentence from this episode)

Hello. About 2,000 years ago, Saul of Tarsus, a young tentmaker and a Jewish zealot, was travelling to Damascus when a light flashed around him, as the King James version has it, and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecuteth thou me?